Default-high privacy for minors
Every jurisdiction with a known obligation of this type, with age brackets, citations, and verification dates.
7 jurisdictions with a known requirement · 44 none known · 0 unknown (unresearched or not yet decomposed)
Arkansas
Default minor accounts to the most protective privacy and safety settings the platform offers.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to minor users (under 16).
California
Set all default privacy settings offered to children to the highest level of privacy, unless a compelling reason supports a different setting in the child's best interests.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to users under 18.
By default, set a known minor's account to a private mode in which only users connected to the minor's account can view or interact with the minor's content, absent a permitted change.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to users under 18 located in California.
Indiana
Apply locked default safety settings to minor accounts, restricting direct messages and search visibility.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to accounts held by Indiana residents under 16
Maryland
Configure default privacy settings for minors to the highest level of protection unless the business can show a compelling reason a different setting is in the child's best interests.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to users under 18.
Nebraska
Set the default settings of covered design features to the highest level of privacy protection available for minor users.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to 'minors'; the Act is styled as an Age-Appropriate Online Design Code (under-18 model). Exact statutory age cut-lines pending primary-text verification.
New York
Set covered minors' accounts, by default, to restrict unconnected users from sending them direct messages, viewing their full profile, tagging them, viewing their location data, downloading their media, and engaging in financial transactions with them.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to 'covered minors' (users under 18).
Utah
Apply protective default settings to minor accounts: restricting account and post visibility and searchability to connected accounts, disabling search-engine indexing, limiting direct messaging to connected accounts, and limiting collection and sale of a minor's data to what a core function requires.
Statute’s own ages: Applies to minor account holders (under 18).